Example sentences of "when she [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says to her when she were leaving it , I says to her there 's people that swear and that . |
| 2 | ‘ Course , I did n't see all that much of her when she were growin' up . |
| 3 | when Ah were finally allowed ti goa back hoam — usually when she were feeling hungry — t'naybors 'd phoned police . |
| 4 | When she were talking to us Aunty Mary you could hear some Yorkshire accent . |
| 5 | ‘ When she was writing Rebecca she had been married for about four years , had one child and during the writing of the book , had her second child . |
| 6 | and when she was writing . |
| 7 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
| 8 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 9 | When she was fastened to my fist people really scared her , whereas if she had been free she would have been able to take evasive action . |
| 10 | He had met her previously when she was given a similarly small part in Hell 's Angels on Wheels and now they were both unattached and deeply attracted to one another . |
| 11 | Hannah explained that it was one of the elegant gifts that her mother had brought down when she was given in marriage to her half-cousin ( on the Tallentire side of the family ) , William Bayles Hauxwell . |
| 12 | The indicated remedy appeared to be spigelia , but when she was given this she developed palpitations and became quite anxious . |
| 13 | China ( cinchona ) is a remedy which is indicated in this situation , and when she was given it , she rapidly regained her energy and vitality . |
| 14 | The thrust of The Enquirer 's story is that the final straw for Diana came when she was given a transcript of the alleged taped conversation between Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles . |
| 15 | Where shall ye now get as much money as ye owe ? ’ , and when she was given forty pence she bought herself a furred cloak with it rather than paying off any of her debts . |
| 16 | STUNNING pop singer Sophie B. Hawkins was upset when she was given the thumbs down to appearing in a white sumo-style nappy in her new video . |
| 17 | Remarkably , when she was given ungrammatical sentences to repeat , she often produced a grammatically correct version : she repeated ‘ She write she mother a letter ’ as ‘ She wrote her mother a letter ’ , and ‘ Do you want to go movies ? ’ as ‘ Do you want to go to the movies ? ’ . |
| 18 | She certainly seemed to thrive on responsibility when she was given it . |
| 19 | when she was cut up at Craven Arms . |
| 20 | The Frenchman handed me an aluminium tin , similar to the one my mother used when she was baking scones and shaking flour onto her baking board . |
| 21 | When she was leaving , John reappeared and he and Sarah accompanied her to the corner of Magdalen Street . |
| 22 | When she was leaving , there was real gratitude in her farewell . |
| 23 | She could not have packed a more unsuitable set of garments for tonight 's escapade , but then no such prospect had even crossed her mind when she was leaving London . |
| 24 | Mr Larkin said : ‘ When she was leaving she always used to come and kiss both me and her mother goodbye although she was 24 years old . |
| 25 | When she was pronounced to be the image of my father , I suspected that something belonging to my father must have got inside my mother to the place where the baby was being carried . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course I 'll take you , ’ Fabia replied without hesitation , and was about to add that she would be on the same flight with her when she was halted by a change in Cara 's expression . |
| 27 | When she was beginning to cry out for him , while he still hovered over her , taunting her with the prospect of even now being denied what she had at first fought against , he demanded her verbal surrender too . |
| 28 | She was considering becoming a patron of his charity-registered foundation for Aids work when she was warned off by suspicious hospital authorities . |
| 29 | So how did Mrs Price win her case when she was alleging age discrimination . |
| 30 | Not easy to do when she was bound hand and foot . |